Green Bench Brewing Co. Sunshine City IPA

Sunshine City IPA

 

Green Bench Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
7.05
ABV: 6.8% IBU: 68 Ticks: 49
Packed with hop flavor and aroma, we double dry hop this beer with equal parts Mosaic, Citra, and Azacca hops, for an intensely tropical profile reminiscent of tangerine, nectar, papaya, peach, kiwi, and pineapple.
 

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at Webb’s City Cellars, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is bright, with lots of citrusy, piney hops, some melon, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is vibrant, with lots of citrusy hops, melon, some pine, and bright tropical notes. Very well-constructed, wonderfully hopped. Excellent.
Tried from Draft at Webb's City Cellar on 17 May 2026 at 15:06

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Reviewed from notes.
Can to English pint glass.
Appearance: glossy yellow color with a sly transparency about it. One and a half fingers of white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: sweet peachy / orange marmalade-like hoppiness, stale grass with some white bread
Flavor: copies the aroma fairly nice without the bready notes; mild finish of the stale grass and peachy to orangey marmalade - like tones
Texture: light to medium bodied, some kind of sessionability, good level of carb, light smoothness along tongue, low level of bitterness
Overall: maybe again but part of me thinks I had an older can, I just wish brewers would date their cans.
Tried from Can on 11 Feb 2026 at 00:13

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
2oz sample kindly served as an exception. Appearance: a bit hazy blonde with a white head. Aroma: floral, citrusy. Taste: quite bitter, earthy, dry, finishes with piney bitterness. Overall: ok.
Tried on 25 May 2024 at 00:59

This would’ve been brilliant eight years ago. Enjoyable, but average.
Tried from Draft on 01 Mar 2024 at 23:46

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draft at the Angry Pepper, Seminole. Light gold, a little hazy with a small white head and considerable lacing. Juicy citrus and pineapple aroma with notes of pine. Bitterness in the juicyvtaste, just enough to round out the immense flavour. Bit of kumquat in the finish. Carbonation on the heavy side. Great.
Tried from Draft on 13 Mar 2023 at 19:38

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Purchased at Green Bench in St Pete, FL as a 16oz 6 pack. Exceptionally good IPA, nice bitterness & sweetness, very tropical, easy drinking, will go to this again!
Tried from Can on 31 Jan 2023 at 20:39

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can at Doc Ford's on Sanibel Island FL Pours a hazy lemon yellow with a decent sized bubbly white head. Sweet bready maltiness with hints of toast. Earthy pine and citrus hops to counter. Not bad.
Tried from Can on 25 Aug 2022 at 21:15

2.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 1 Texture 2 Overall 0.5
Can from natures food patch. Pour is a big giant white head with barely any beer in the bottom. What does exist is clear pale yellow. Nose is mild diesel and BO perfume. First taste is an odd almost dull flavor of pine tar. LOL, I find nothing reminiscent of tangerine, nectar, papaya, peach, kiwi, and pineapple. Its just simple bitter ass beer, like most IPA. At least its got a little kick in the alky department that detracts me from the full flavored hops impression that it is. Some rubber inner tube in there. Like chewing on rubber inner tubes? Just asking. IF you do, try this one on for size. So big, so large, so in-charge for an IPA that its more bitter than I expected. It comes across like a double IPA but its ABV is only simple IPA. There you have it. Quite an over the top in hop bitter flavor of an IPA. Whew, what else can be said? Its a hop bomb fer sher.
Tried from Can on 09 Apr 2022 at 21:07

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can from CW online. It pours pale golden - yellow with a fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, zingy, lemon, lemongrass, pine, tropical vibes, kiwi and papaya. The taste is crisp, dry, bitter, clean, snappy, piney, green, weedy, dank edge, peppery spice, pithy, zesty, tangerine, orange peel, papaya, nip of alcohol with a drying, green finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Straightforward but enjoyable and moreish.
Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2021 at 18:09

Tried from Can on 23 Jul 2021 at 15:35